Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 81 84
Rank change year-on-year -8 +3 -28
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 2,082 1,772 2,387
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.94% 3.55% 2.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.64% 3.98% 3.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,442 851 1,587
10th Percentile £45,046 £50,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.54% -13.33%
75th Percentile £93,634 £91,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £113,750 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -3.70%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 78,774 44,506 67,319
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.34% 89.17% 80.88%
Number of salaries quoted 54,302 25,213 43,010
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -9.09%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 19 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 19 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -14 1,812 £75,000 +3.45% 1,016
UK excluding London -27 1,141 £67,500 -3.57% 539
Work from Home -15 872 £67,500 -3.57% 516
London -14 799 £85,000 +6.25% 618
North of England -33 373 £70,000 - 168
South East +35 327 £65,000 -7.14% 130
North West -48 199 £75,000 +7.14% 94
South West -7 131 £60,000 - 57
Midlands -55 107 £67,500 -3.57% 65
North East +19 98 £65,000 +18.18% 36
West Midlands -33 77 £80,000 +12.28% 44
Yorkshire +10 76 £65,000 -7.14% 38
Northern Ireland -26 67 £60,000 +33.33% 21
Wales -13 61 £65,000 +25.00% 7
East of England -36 43 £60,100 -3.84% 32
Scotland -59 34 £60,000 -22.58% 65
East Midlands -48 30 £64,000 -5.19% 21
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 42 (2.02%) Confluence
2 30 (1.44%) Apache Spark
3 18 (0.86%) Apache
4 17 (0.82%) CMS
5 14 (0.67%) IIS
6 13 (0.62%) Camunda
7 9 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 8 (0.38%) JBoss
8 8 (0.38%) OpenStack
9 7 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
9 7 (0.34%) nginx
9 7 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 7 (0.34%) WordPress
10 5 (0.24%) Drupal
11 4 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
11 4 (0.19%) Umbraco
12 3 (0.14%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.14%) GeoServer
12 3 (0.14%) Immediacy CMS
12 3 (0.14%) Kentico
Applications
1 11 (0.53%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.48%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.19%) PlantUML
4 3 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.096%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.048%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
1 8 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
2 6 (0.29%) Oracle Retail
3 4 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.096%) Shopify
6 1 (0.048%) Eikon
6 1 (0.048%) RMDS
6 1 (0.048%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,057 (50.77%) AWS
2 882 (42.36%) Azure
3 328 (15.75%) GCP
4 267 (12.82%) Serverless
5 258 (12.39%) GitHub
6 197 (9.46%) SaaS
7 183 (8.79%) Azure DevOps
8 146 (7.01%) AWS Lambda
9 123 (5.91%) Amazon S3
10 112 (5.38%) Amazon EKS
10 112 (5.38%) AWS CloudFormation
11 106 (5.09%) GitHub Copilot
12 97 (4.66%) Azure Service Bus
13 84 (4.03%) Amazon ECS
14 73 (3.51%) GitHub Actions
15 69 (3.31%) Amazon SQS
16 67 (3.22%) Amazon EC2
17 64 (3.07%) Azure AKS
18 52 (2.50%) PaaS
19 51 (2.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 46 (2.21%) Broadband
2 22 (1.06%) Network Security
3 13 (0.62%) DMARC
3 13 (0.62%) DNS
3 13 (0.62%) MQTT
4 9 (0.43%) HTTP
5 8 (0.38%) AMQP
5 8 (0.38%) Internet
5 8 (0.38%) TCP/IP
5 8 (0.38%) VPN
6 7 (0.34%) Firewall
6 7 (0.34%) Hyperconnected
7 6 (0.29%) RFID
8 4 (0.19%) Cisco ASA
8 4 (0.19%) DHCP
9 3 (0.14%) LTE
9 3 (0.14%) Modbus
9 3 (0.14%) NAS
9 3 (0.14%) SAN
10 2 (0.096%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 307 (14.75%) MongoDB
2 230 (11.05%) PostgreSQL
3 200 (9.61%) NoSQL
4 168 (8.07%) Azure SQL Database
5 159 (7.64%) Elasticsearch
6 124 (5.96%) SQL Server
7 117 (5.62%) MySQL
8 97 (4.66%) Relational Database
9 70 (3.36%) Redis
10 56 (2.69%) DynamoDB
11 49 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
12 30 (1.44%) Big Data
13 17 (0.82%) RDBMS
14 16 (0.77%) Data Lake
15 15 (0.72%) Pinecone
16 13 (0.62%) BigQuery
17 12 (0.58%) Db2
17 12 (0.58%) DTS
18 10 (0.48%) Geospatial Data
19 8 (0.38%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 277 (13.30%) Git
2 188 (9.03%) GitLab
3 170 (8.17%) Jenkins
4 65 (3.12%) JUnit
5 63 (3.03%) JIRA
6 54 (2.59%) TeamCity
7 49 (2.35%) Cucumber
8 40 (1.92%) Cypress.io
8 40 (1.92%) Mockito
9 34 (1.63%) Claude Code
10 31 (1.49%) Maven
11 26 (1.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 25 (1.20%) Selenium
13 18 (0.86%) SonarQube
14 15 (0.72%) CircleCI
14 15 (0.72%) Postman
14 15 (0.72%) Spock
15 14 (0.67%) JMeter
15 14 (0.67%) REST Assured
16 12 (0.58%) Vite
General
1 529 (25.41%) Finance
2 419 (20.12%) Social Skills
3 218 (10.47%) Public Sector
4 187 (8.98%) Banking
5 158 (7.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 151 (7.25%) Law
7 142 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
8 116 (5.57%) Retail
9 85 (4.08%) Legal
10 66 (3.17%) Financial Institution
11 65 (3.12%) Marketing
12 48 (2.31%) Back Office
13 37 (1.78%) Aerospace
14 30 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
15 28 (1.34%) Games
15 28 (1.34%) Legal Technology
16 19 (0.91%) Advertising
17 18 (0.86%) Front Office
18 15 (0.72%) Manufacturing
19 14 (0.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 775 (37.22%) Developer
2 494 (23.73%) Senior
3 374 (17.96%) Software Engineer
4 352 (16.91%) Lead
5 301 (14.46%) Architect
6 205 (9.85%) .NET Developer
7 183 (8.79%) Senior Developer
8 168 (8.07%) Full-Stack Developer
9 156 (7.49%) Java Developer
10 129 (6.20%) Java Engineer
11 124 (5.96%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 123 (5.91%) Senior Software Engineer
13 106 (5.09%) Solutions Architect
14 103 (4.95%) Principal Engineer
15 85 (4.08%) Software Developer
16 79 (3.79%) Lead Software Engineer
17 75 (3.60%) DevOps Engineer
18 73 (3.51%) Lead Developer
19 57 (2.74%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
19 57 (2.74%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 560 (26.90%) .NET
2 445 (21.37%) React
3 432 (20.75%) Node.js
4 355 (17.05%) Spring
5 322 (15.47%) Spring Boot
6 308 (14.79%) RESTful
7 287 (13.78%) REST
8 266 (12.78%) Kafka
9 248 (11.91%) ASP.NET
10 229 (11.00%) .NET Core
11 221 (10.61%) AngularJS
12 216 (10.37%) Vue
13 199 (9.56%) ASP.NET Core
14 120 (5.76%) Blazor
15 105 (5.04%) ASP.NET Web API
16 97 (4.66%) .NET Framework
17 96 (4.61%) HTML
18 93 (4.47%) CSS
19 84 (4.03%) RabbitMQ
20 78 (3.75%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 645 (30.98%) Cloud Native
2 368 (17.68%) Distributed Systems
3 149 (7.16%) Product Ownership
4 112 (5.38%) Enterprise Software
5 109 (5.24%) Legacy Systems
6 76 (3.65%) Onboarding
7 52 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
8 51 (2.45%) AI Agents
9 47 (2.26%) Public Cloud
10 43 (2.07%) Virtual Team
11 38 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
12 35 (1.68%) e-Learning
13 31 (1.49%) Video\Live Streaming
14 28 (1.34%) Distributed Architecture
15 27 (1.30%) Over-the-Top Content
16 25 (1.20%) Legacy Applications
17 23 (1.10%) Management Information System
18 21 (1.01%) Algorithms
18 21 (1.01%) Data Structures
19 20 (0.96%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 139 (6.68%) Linux
2 49 (2.35%) Windows
3 26 (1.25%) CentOS
3 26 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 22 (1.06%) Unix
5 8 (0.38%) Apple iOS
5 8 (0.38%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.29%) AIX
6 6 (0.29%) Android
7 5 (0.24%) Debian
7 5 (0.24%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.096%) VMS
9 1 (0.048%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,103 (52.98%) CI/CD
2 985 (47.31%) Agile
3 738 (35.45%) Software Engineering
4 733 (35.21%) DevOps
5 580 (27.86%) Full-Stack Development
6 512 (24.59%) Mentoring
7 454 (21.81%) Event-Driven
8 445 (21.37%) AI
9 427 (20.51%) Containerisation
10 420 (20.17%) Infrastructure as Code
11 418 (20.08%) Continuous Improvement
12 414 (19.88%) Test Automation
13 381 (18.30%) Problem-Solving
14 301 (14.46%) Technical Leadership
15 291 (13.98%) Scrum
16 283 (13.59%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 246 (11.82%) TDD
18 235 (11.29%) Architectural Patterns
19 233 (11.19%) Clean Code
20 225 (10.81%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 704 (33.81%) Java
2 585 (28.10%) C#
3 504 (24.21%) SQL
4 479 (23.01%) Python
5 464 (22.29%) JavaScript
6 388 (18.64%) TypeScript
7 106 (5.09%) Go
8 58 (2.79%) Ruby
9 46 (2.21%) C++
10 41 (1.97%) Bash
11 38 (1.83%) PHP
12 37 (1.78%) Scala
13 28 (1.34%) PowerShell
14 26 (1.25%) Bicep
15 23 (1.10%) Rust
16 22 (1.06%) Kotlin
17 20 (0.96%) PL/SQL
18 19 (0.91%) C
19 13 (0.62%) Groovy
20 12 (0.58%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 304 (14.60%) Security Cleared
2 204 (9.80%) SC Cleared
3 182 (8.74%) Degree
4 92 (4.42%) DV Cleared
5 81 (3.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 71 (3.41%) AWS Certification
7 47 (2.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 30 (1.44%) Azure Certification
8 30 (1.44%) CISSP
9 18 (0.86%) CISM
9 18 (0.86%) Master's Degree
10 17 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
11 14 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
12 10 (0.48%) MBA
12 10 (0.48%) PhD
13 8 (0.38%) DBS Check
14 6 (0.29%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 5 (0.24%) AWS Certified Developer
15 5 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
16 4 (0.19%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 219 (10.52%) QA
2 90 (4.32%) Accessibility
3 37 (1.78%) WCAG
4 36 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 34 (1.63%) GDPR
6 17 (0.82%) NCSC
6 17 (0.82%) NIST
7 15 (0.72%) SOC 2
8 14 (0.67%) PCI DSS
9 13 (0.62%) Data Quality
10 10 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
11 9 (0.43%) GRC
11 9 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 8 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
13 7 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 6 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
15 5 (0.24%) PSD2
16 4 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 3 (0.14%) IFRS
17 3 (0.14%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 593 (28.48%) Docker
2 36 (1.73%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.24%) NDS
4 5 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.19%) Firmware
5 4 (0.19%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.14%) KVM
7 1 (0.048%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 626 (30.07%) Kubernetes
2 373 (17.92%) Terraform
3 114 (5.48%) Ansible
4 96 (4.61%) Grafana
5 54 (2.59%) Prometheus
6 27 (1.30%) Argo
7 26 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (0.91%) Puppet
9 15 (0.72%) Kibana
10 9 (0.43%) Cilium
11 6 (0.29%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.24%) Podman
13 4 (0.19%) HP Fortify
13 4 (0.19%) Packer
14 3 (0.14%) Kubeflow
15 2 (0.096%) MIIS
15 2 (0.096%) Rancher
16 1 (0.048%) Cisco CUCM
16 1 (0.048%) Fluentd
16 1 (0.048%) logstash
Vendors
1 331 (15.90%) Microsoft
2 96 (4.61%) Google
3 71 (3.41%) Oracle
4 41 (1.97%) OpenAI
5 39 (1.87%) Splunk
6 29 (1.39%) Dynatrace
7 27 (1.30%) Typelevel
8 23 (1.10%) AppDynamics
8 23 (1.10%) IBM
8 23 (1.10%) Okta
9 22 (1.06%) Databricks
10 21 (1.01%) ForgeRock
11 17 (0.82%) OneLogin
12 15 (0.72%) SAP
13 14 (0.67%) Salesforce
14 13 (0.62%) Adobe
14 13 (0.62%) SendGrid
15 12 (0.58%) ServiceNow
16 11 (0.53%) Red Hat
17 8 (0.38%) OpenText